Overturned cars lay among other debris caused by flash floods in Derna, eastern Libya, on September 11, 2023. Flash floods in eastern Libya killed more than 2,300 people in the Mediterranean coastal city of Derna alone, the emergency services of the Tripoli-based government said on September 12....
US Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) speaks to reporters outside of his office at the US Capitol Building on September 12, 2023 in Washington, DC. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy announced Tuesday that he endorsed launching a formal impeachment inquiry into US President Joe Biden. (Photo by...
Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at the Far Eastern Federal University campus on Russky island in the far-eastern Russian port of Vladivostok on April 25, 2019. North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un departed Pyongyang on September 12, 2023 on a train to Russia...
PARIS, France - For the first time, world demand for oil, gas and coal is forecast to peak this decade due to the "spectacular" growth of cleaner energy technologies and electric cars, the International Energy Agency's chief said Tuesday. The IEA's annual World Energy Outlook, due out next...
BEIJING, China - China outlined on Tuesday a raft of measures for strengthening integration with Taiwan, in an indication that Beijing aims to expand links with the self-ruled island that were severed during the Covid-19 pandemic. China claims the democratic island as part of its territory and...
MARRAKESH, Morocco - Hopes dimmed on Tuesday in Morocco's search for survivors, four days after a powerful earthquake killed more than 2,800 people, most of them in remote villages of the High Atlas Mountains. Search-and-rescue teams from the kingdom and from abroad kept digging through the...
WARSAW, Poland - The Polish government on Tuesday agreed to extend a ban on Ukrainian grain imports unilaterally even if the current EU restrictions expire on September 15. "Regardless of the (European) Commission's further decision, we will not open the border to Ukrainian grain after that...
MARSEILLE, France - A 24-year-old woman has died after being hit by a stray bullet in an attack on a drug-dealing hotspot in the French Mediterranean city of Marseille, prosecutors said on Tuesday. The woman was hit late on Sunday evening when a burst of fire from a Kalashnikov rifle tore...
GENEVA, Switzerland - Climate change is sparking human rights emergencies in numerous countries, the UN rights chief said Monday, stressing the need to fight the impunity of those who "plunder our environment." Speaking before the United Nations Human Rights Council, Volker Turk pointed to recent...
HAMBURG, Germany - Leaders of nine small island states turned to the UN maritime court on Monday to seek protection of the world's oceans from catastrophic climate change that threatens the very existence of entire countries. The island states are asking the International Tribunal for the Law of...
KYIV, Ukraine - Ukraine has increased security in the city of Uman as Jewish pilgrims arrived there to mark a religious holiday, despite warnings not to travel to the war-torn country. Thousands of Orthodox Jews come to Uman from Israel and elsewhere every year to celebrate the Rosh Hashanah...
BENGHAZI, Libya - At least 150 people were killed in freak floods in eastern Libya as a result of storm Daniel which has swept the Mediterranean, an official said on Monday. Images filmed by residents of the disaster area showed massive mudslides, collapsed buildings and entire neighbourhoods...
